Contributing WAI-ARIA landmark roles to open source CMS themes

Sometime new technology suffers from a chicken and egg problem. For example, if no websites start using WAI-ARIA there will be few incentives for manufacturers of assistive technology or browsers to include support in their products.

With the help of Steve, I submitted a minor patch for the default WordPress theme that adds ARIA landmark roles. I believe that a simple thing like this would make the web a better place for a lot of people as well as making web development easier.

I’m head of the accessibility team at the upcoming hosted journalling service Dreamwidth – we’re only in closed beta at the moment but will be adding WAI-ARIA landmark roles to as much of the site as we can manage as soon as we can. Hopefully much will be done before open beta at the end of the month.

Dreamwidth is an open source project that’s a code fork of LiveJournal, for those who are interested, and deeply committed to diversity and accessibility. If there’s anybody interested in becoming involved in the accessibility side of it I’ve got invite codes and there’s no such thing as “too many volunteers”! Just email me with details. We’re especially looking for screen reader users to check some specific final details for usability.

You can vote for more accessibility in Plone in the current Plone improvement ideas Feedback Forum. If you have a login for Uservoice, you can also add comments (e.g. refer to ticket #9298 for support of WAI-ARIA landmarks).

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